Quotes About Imagination

Fiction felt not like an escape from truth, but a release into it.

For me, reading was never an antisocial activity. It was deeply social. It was the most profound kind of socializing there was. A deep connection to the imagination of another human being. A way to connect without the many filters society normally demands.

Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived.

If one advances confidently,' Thoreau had written in Walden, 'in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.' He'd also observed that part of this success was the product of being alone.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams,' Thoreau had said. 'Live the life you've imagined.' Thoreau had been her favourite philosopher to study. But who seriously goes confidently in the direction of their dreams? Well, apart from Thoreau.

imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying their best. And in doing so, she imagined what it was like to be free.

every day a retreat from who she'd imagined she'd be.

I want to make a forest of a moment and live in that forest for ever

It can drive you insane thinking of all the other lives we don't live.

She had come to imagine mediocrity and disappointment were her destiny.

Er wordt wel gezegd dat je of leest om aan de wereld te ontsnappen of om jezelf te vinden. Ik zie het verschil niet echt.We vinden onszelf door te ontsnappen. Het gaat er niet om waar je bent, maar waar je heen wilt, en zo.

if books had to replicate our exact experience of the world to be useful, the only books worth reading would be written by ourselves.

She imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying their best. And in doing so, she imagined what it was like to be free. Life and Death and the Quantum Wave Function With Hugo, it wasn't a library.

When I opened my eyes I saw Tchaikovsky with his baton, seemingly pulling the music right out of the air, as if music was something already in the atmosphere.

Chaque livre écrit est le produit d'un esprit humain dans une disposition particulière. Additionnez tous les livres, et vous obtenez la somme totale de l'humanité. Chaque fois que je lisais un bon livre, j'avais l'impression de lire une sorte de carte au trésor, et le trésor vers lequel elle me menait était en fait moi-même.

Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity.

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.

live any life we want. Any life. Dream big . . . You can be anything you want to be. Because in one life, you are.

But we must never feel – personally or as a culture – that only one version of the future is inevitable. The future is ours to shape.

You can never run out of possibilities.

did notice that some of the buildings were larger and—relatively speaking—more ornately designed than others. Temples to the orgasm, I imagined.

If one advances confidently,' Thoreau had written in Walden, 'in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.' He'd also observed that part of this success was the product of being alone. 'I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.' -The Midnight Library

There are more possible ways to play a game of chess than the amount of atoms in the observable universe.

She could plant a forest inside herself.